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• stream/agora@botsin.space/Kanno Sugako.md by @agora@botsin.space

  👩‍🌾 Contribution Kanno Sugako.md by @agora@botsin.space ☆

  • [[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/113654310242586736 pull

  🕒 Last updated 2024-12-15 02:45:49
• garden/flancian/vibing cat.md by @flancian

  👩‍🌾 Contribution vibing cat.md by @flancian ☆

  • #go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUYvbT6vTPs
    • #pull [[Bilal Göregen]]

  🕒 Last updated 2026-03-26 23:53:53
• garden/flancian/free, fair and alive.md by @flancian

  👩‍🌾 Contribution free, fair and alive.md by @flancian ☆

  • a [[book]].
    • [[david bollier]] [[silke helfrich]]
    • on [[commons]]
      • recommended by [[neil]]
      • a [[banger]] :)
    • [[go]] https://www.freefairandalive.org/read-it
    • [[es]] [[libres, dignos, vivos]]

  🕒 Last updated 2026-03-26 23:53:53
• garden/neil/likes.md by @neil

  👩‍🌾 Contribution likes.md by @neil ☆

  Likes

  [[I don’t like likes]].

  🕒 Last updated 2021-12-23 18:13:31
• stream/agora@botsin.space/donate.md by @agora@botsin.space

  👩‍🌾 Contribution donate.md by @agora@botsin.space ☆

  • [[flancian]] https://social.coop/@flancian/108141707454837707 pull

  🕒 Last updated 2022-04-16 14:18:27
• garden/olofl/journal/2022-04-02.md by @olofl

  👩‍🌾 Contribution journal/2022-04-02.md by @olofl ☆

  2022-04-02

  • Signed up for a [[spring reading challenge]], to read 10 books in 10 weeks. Will use this opportunity to go deep on [[Ernest Hemingway]]. I’ve only read two of his books before, [[The Snows of Kilimanjaro]] and [[The Old Man and the Sea]]. The ten weeks starts on Monday, so better get ready.

  🕒 Last updated 2022-04-03 14:27:17
• garden/flancian/tokyo 1960.md by @flancian

  👩‍🌾 Contribution tokyo 1960.md by @flancian ☆

  • [[go]] https://archeyes.com/plan-tokyo-1960-kenzo-tange/
    • by [[kenzo tange]]
    • part of [[metabolist]] movement

  🕒 Last updated 2026-03-26 23:53:53
• garden/neil/land-reform.md by @neil

  👩‍🌾 Contribution land-reform.md by @neil ☆

  land reform

  🕒 Last updated 2021-10-17 16:32:13
• garden/flancian/brandenburg concertos.md by @flancian

  👩‍🌾 Contribution brandenburg concertos.md by @flancian ☆

  Brandenburg Concertos

  • [[go]] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbQORqkStpk
    • "For those who don’t know about the story behind Bach’s Brandenburg concertos. In 1721, Bach composed six “concertos for various instruments”. He dedicated them to a German nobleman and sent the manuscript as a gift, hoping to land a job as the court composer in Brandenburg. The nobleman never replied. Bach eventually took another job in Leipzig, where he lived for the rest of his life. The 6 concertos were lost for 130 years. They were never performed. The manuscript was eventually sold for about $20 and shelved in a library. The Brandenburg Concertos sat there until 1849, when they were discovered and published for the first time. Thank god."
    • A good Youtube comment!
  • [[wiki]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concertos pull

  🕒 Last updated 2026-03-26 23:53:47
• stoa/doc.anagora.org/a-simple-life-with-my-unobtrusive-sister-full-version-free-download.md by @anonymous@doc.anagora.org

  👩‍🌾 Contribution a-simple-life-with-my-unobtrusive-sister-full-version-free-download.md by @anonymous@doc.anagora.org ☆

  sd g

  ⥅ [[https://]]

  

  ⥅ [[https://]]

  🕒 Last updated 2026-06-07 23:28:58
• garden/vera/fragility.md by @vera

  👩‍🌾 Contribution fragility.md by @vera ☆

  • the privilege of being stressed by privilege

  🕒 Last updated 2022-01-28 17:25:08
• garden/neil/tredegar-medical-aid-society.md by @neil

  👩‍🌾 Contribution tredegar-medical-aid-society.md by @neil ☆

  Tredegar Medical Aid Society

  Really interesting to learn that the [[NHS]] was part inspired by the Tredegar Medical Aid Society (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tredegar_Medical_Aid_Society).

  It was a mutual society providing health care free at the point of use in South Wales. Nye Bevan, who spearheaded the foundation of the NHS, was from Tredegar.

  h/t NEF podcast on public ownership (https://neweconomics.org/2019/02/weekly-economics-podcast-public-ownership-2.0)

  🕒 Last updated 2021-10-17 16:32:13
• garden/neil/org-social.md by @neil

  👩‍🌾 Contribution org-social.md by @neil ☆

  Org Social

  Found at : https://org-social.org

  🕒 Last updated 2025-12-31 18:05:53
• garden/flancian/drishtis.md by @flancian

  👩‍🌾 Contribution drishtis.md by @flancian ☆

  • a [[list]].
    • #pull [[drishti]]

  🕒 Last updated 2026-03-26 23:53:53
• garden/flancian/dharma.md by @flancian

  👩‍🌾 Contribution dharma.md by @flancian ☆

  • The [[path]] we try to follow.
    • [[go]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma pull
    • "The right way of living".
    • I sometimes consider myself a [[secular buddhist]].
      • Update (2022): I’m a [[buddhist]].

  🕒 Last updated 2026-03-26 23:53:53
• garden/flancian/2021-04-11.md by @flancian

  👩‍🌾 Contribution 2021-04-11.md by @flancian ☆

  2021-04-11

  • Shipped [[agora graph]], [[search providers]].
  • [[push]] [[later]]
    • [[transitive go]]
    • write about [[run]], perhaps needed for [[js subodes]] or [[py subnodes]]
  • My mum told me about a movie in which cancelled [[kevin spacey]] plays a cat.
  • [[push]] [[game]]
    • [[flancia]] is a [[world building]] [[game]].
  • [[flancia es]]
    • [[agora es]]

  https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1381236451397021698 pull

  🕒 Last updated 2026-03-26 23:53:42
• garden/neil/space-cats-fight-fascism.md by @neil

  👩‍🌾 Contribution space-cats-fight-fascism.md by @neil ☆

  Space Cats Fight Fascism

  A : game

  Made by : [[Tesa Collective]]

  Available at : https://store.tesacollective.com/collections/games/products/space-cats-fight-fascism-the-board-game

  A board/card game where you play as a bunch of cats to overcome a fascist regime.

  We own this. It’s great fun.

  

  ⥅ [[images/space-cats.jpg]]

  🕒 Last updated 2023-11-20 01:41:55
• garden/flancian/journal/2022_04_02.md by @flancian

  👩‍🌾 Contribution journal/2022_04_02.md by @flancian ☆

  • [[spring snow]]
    • it snowed again the last few days, including tonight — this after a few weeks with 15-20 degrees out. it’s happened before; it’s surprising still, but less than before.
  • [[capra course]]
    • [[lecture 6]]
  • [[flancia meet]]
    • thinking of finally setting up [[agora meet]] some other time
      • perhaps [[wednesdays at 5pm gmt]]? that’s 09:00 Pacific, so it won’t conflict with [[ward]]‘s [[fedwiki meet]].
      • unfortunately there’s a risk I will have conflicts at work, though, at least sometimes.
    • thought of priorities for the upcoming week.
  • [[yiming]] == [[ChengduLittleA]]
  • [[vegan backerei]]
  • [[agora]]
    • [[agora server]]

      • DONE fix [[buddhist orange]]

      • DONE fix [[light theme]]

  • [[unfollow]]
  • [[youtube]]
  • [[today I failed]]
  • [[ways to nudge future]]

  🕒 Last updated 2026-03-26 23:53:53
• garden/neil/the-next-revolution.md by @neil

  👩‍🌾 Contribution the-next-revolution.md by @neil ☆

  The Next Revolution

  Author : [[Murray Bookchin]]

  Publisher : Verso

  Has a foreword from [[Ursula K. Le Guin]].

  Essays

  [[The Communalist Project]]

  The Ecological Crisis and the Need to Remake Society,

  The second essay, "The Ecological Crisis and the Need to Remake Society," elucidates the core insight of Bookchin’s [[social ecology]]—that the ecological and social crises are intertwined, indeed, that our domination of nature is a projection of domination of human by human in society. Rejecting ecological arguments that blame individual choices, technology, or population growth, Bookchin argues that the ecological crisis is caused by an irrational social system governed by the cancerous logic of capitalism, driven by its competitive grow-or-die imperative and its endless production directed not toward meeting human needs but accumulating profit. Arguing against the extremes of an authoritarian state or totally autonomous self-sufficiency, Bookchin offers Communalism as an emancipatory alternative capable of saving ourselves and nature at the same time.

  A Politics for the Twenty-First Century

  The first outlines how confederated assemblies can assert popular control over the economy in order to abolish it as a separate social realm, directing it to human needs rather than profit.

  The Meaning of Confederalism

  “The Meaning of Confederalism” further elaborates on these themes and addresses specific objections to the concept of confederal [[direct democracy]]. It answers common questions such as, Is confederation feasible in a globalized world? How would local assemblies address bigger problems in a democratic manner? Would local communities cooperate or compete with each other, or could [[localism]] devolve to parochialism?

  Libertarian Municipalism: A Politics of Direct Democracy

  “Libertarian Municipalism: A Politics of Direct Democracy” traces the familiar historical trajectory from movements into parties—social democratic, socialist, and Green alike—which have consistently failed to change the world but instead are changed by it. By contrast, [[libertarian municipalism]] changes not only the content but also the form of politics, transforming politics from its current lowly status as what reviled politicians do to us into a new paradigm in which politics is something we, as fully engaged citizens, do for ourselves, thus reclaiming democratic control over our own lives and communities.

  Cities: The Unfolding of Reason in History

  Exploring the unique liberatory potential of the city and the citizen throughout history, “Cities: The Unfolding of Reason in History” examines the degradation of the concept of “citizen”—from that of a free individual empowered to participate and make collective decisions to a mere constituent and taxpayer. Bookchin seeks to rescue the Enlightenment notion of a progressive, but not teleological, concept of History wherein reason guides human action toward the eradication of toil and oppression; or put positively, freedom.

  Nationalism and the ‘National Question’

  The essays “Nationalism and the ‘National Question’ ” and “Anarchism and Power in the [[Spanish Revolution]]” elucidate a libertarian perspective on questions of power, cultural identity, and politcal sovereignty.

  In the former, Bookchin places nationalism in the larger historical context of humanity’s social evolution, with the aim of transcending it, suggesting instead a libertarian and cosmopolitan ethics of complementarity in which cultural differences serve to enhance human unity.

  Anarchism and Power in the Spanish Revolution

  In “Anarchism and Power in the Spanish Revolution” he confronts the question of power, describing how anarchists throughout history have seen power as an essentially negative evil that must be destroyed. Bookchin contends that power will always exist, but that the question revolutionaries face is whether it will rest in the hands of elites or be given an emancipatory institutional form.

  The Future of the Left

  The concluding, previously unpublished, essay “The Future of the Left” assesses the fate of the revolutionary project during the twentieth century, examining the Marxist and anarchist traditions. Bookchin argues that Marxism remains trapped by a limited focus on economy and is deeply marred by its legacy of authoritarian statism. Anarchism, by contrast, retains a problematic individualism that valorizes abstract and liberal notions of “[[autonomy]]” over a more expansive notion of freedom, ducking thorny questions about collective power, social institutions, and political strategy. Communalism resolves this tension by giving freedom concrete institutional form in confederated popular assemblies. The essay concludes with a passionate defense of the Enlightenment and a reminder that its legacy of discerning the “is” from the “ought” still constitutes the very core of the Left: critique directed toward unlocking the potentiality of universal human freedom.

  He makes a crucial distinction between statecraft and politics. He sees the state as a force for domination and statecraft as the means by which it is sustained. Politics, by contrast, is “the active engagement of free citizens” in their own affairs.

  Reviews

  His writings on this theme were published posthumously in a book called The Next Revolution. You wouldn’t read it for pleasure. His style is stern, clunky and verbose, without warmth or humour. But his ideas are powerful.

  – Enclaves of Democracy – George Monbiot

  Even so, I don’t see Bookchin’s prescriptions as a panacea. I don’t believe he deals adequately with the problems of global capital, global supply chains, defence against aggressive states or the need for global action on global crises. But at the very least, we can create enclaves of democracy in a landscape of domination.

  – Enclaves of Democracy – George Monbiot

  🕒 Last updated 2022-07-28 23:13:54
• stream/agora@botsin.space/Planetary Defense System.md by @agora@botsin.space

  👩‍🌾 Contribution Planetary Defense System.md by @agora@botsin.space ☆

  • [[flancian]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109066624084788180 pull

  🕒 Last updated 2022-09-26 22:36:52
• garden/vera/notes on quantum mechanics.md by @vera

  👩‍🌾 Contribution notes on quantum mechanics.md by @vera ☆

  [[speculative outline]] for [[quantum mechanics]]

  was trying to explain to my friend the other day how [[quantum decoherence]] is responsible for our observation of whether [[schrodinger’s cat]] is dead(sleeping) or alive(awake)

  • I like the sleep/awake version better because it doesn’t involve killing cats
  • the universe (specifically the observer) finds themselves in a world that the cat is awake/asleep. There are two observers (we are talking about [[many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics]] here).
    • In the [[copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics]], there is only one observer and the universe "collapses" to show us what’s "really happening"
      • this is how quantum mechanics is usually explained and I don’t like it because it adds extra stuff that doesn’t need to be there for the sake of making people "feel better", which I believe to be one of the greatest sins of science
  • [[side note]] the TV show [[devs]] is an interesting show that talks about quantum mechanics from a very mathematically sound perspective

  [[self-locating uncertainty]]

  [[born-rule]]

  🕒 Last updated 2022-07-12 01:26:47
• garden/neil/how-i-take-notes.md by @neil

  👩‍🌾 Contribution how-i-take-notes.md by @neil ☆

  How I take notes

  When I’m taking some notes on something, I kind of do it like this:

  • Write a few sentences on what I already think about it first, before reading anything specifically elsewhere.
  • The ‘subjective’ view: see what’s been written on it by people I already have a mental model of. Probably quote a bunch from these.
    • Friends/comrades: check in Anagora, see what’s been written there
    • ‘Mentors’: [[Free, Fair and Alive]] / https://patternlanguage.commoning.wiki / [[Lean Logic]]
    • Counterpoints: not sure where to get these from in garden form right now, but basically people I know will probably not agree. Posting on social media is usually a good way of getting some antithesis action.
  • The ‘objective’ view: Wikipedia.
    • Maybe quote a bit just for understanding, but not too much from here. No point trying to recreate an objective view.
  • Synthesis
    • Actually - just leave it there if time’s up for now. That’s fine. Can come back to it.
    • Otherwise, try and synthesise it to understand.

  Thinking about this, I want certain circles/groupings of people. e.g. for politics I’d probably go to FFA, P2P wiki, some peeps on Anagora, etc

  For other stuff (let’s say knowledge management), I’d probably go to [[Phil Jones]], [[Bill Seitz]], some Anagora peeps, etc

  🕒 Last updated 2021-12-29 10:32:20